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On Monday, December 6, 2004, at 04:12 PM, Pat Meadows wrote:

>   Since then, I've
> experienced red pepper being grilled a few more times
> (things he didn't realize contained red pepper):  same
> result:  cannot breathe, and must instantly get outdoors,
> away from it.

You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, as it sounds 
important:

Not all hot peppers are red. Some ripen gold, yellow, brown or purple; 
others are normally used at a green stage. Some sweet peppers are red. 
My guess is that you're reacting to the heat compounds (capsaicins), and 
that you would react to green (or other color) hot peppers and not to 
red sweet ones; but that's just a guess.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly